Category Archives: Cyberspace & Technology

Announcement!

Blade‘s in the process of doing that MT migration thing for the Court. Over the next few days things might go a bit wonky. Beaks and wingtips inside the blog at all times, please.

UPDATE: Owls’ Court is now officially hosted over at my own Owldaughter web site. If you have reached this old weblog through Blogger or thanks to the tenacious cache of Google, the owlies have since removed their place of habitation; the fun continues over at Owldaughter!

You are cordially invited to transfer over to the new

Owls’ Court

Come join the fun!

Drumroll please…

Ladies and gentlebeasts, we present:

There. HRH has an on-line CV and sample portfolio, whether he likes it or not. For the moment, please don’t add it to your links; it needs final approval and so forth. Don’t bother pointing out that there’s no contact info; I know there isn’t. The site isn’t meant to advertise, it’s meant to serve as a literal electronic portfolio, the URL of which will be included in applications made by HRH to lucky studios and businesses who as of yet are unaware of his talents and skills.

I appear to have a stomach-ache. Eating would probably help.

Accomplished

After a day or so of doing things but not really getting much done, I sat down and wrote two new book reviews today. I also uploaded four or five reviews that I’d written for Wyntergreene but hadn’t added to the Read page of my site yet. (Those would be Progressive Witchcraft (thumbs up), Witch’s Familiar (thumbs down), Order of the Phoenix (thumbs up, of course — a year late, but finally uploaded!), Voices From the Pagan Census (undecided), Philosophy of Wicca (thumbs down), and Rites of Worship (thumbs up).)

So I’ve finished the reviews of Healing Magic and Advanced Witchcraft, and voila, simply because I’ve gotten writing down on paper (in pixels?) I feel satisfied. This is a problem with defining yourself as a writer: if you don’t write, you feel like a failure. Even rationalising reading as research doesn’t completely cut it. Deep inside, you still feel like you’re making excuses for the fact that you didn’t write.

However, all that has been swept away! I am a writer once more, with eight hundred new words to my name. (Not a stellar harvest today, but it’s eight hundred more than I had this morning.)

Musical Ephemerae

I finished my new Music page of the site last night. I was rather surprised to discover that I’ve only been with the orchestra for three seasons, not four, and I’m rather impressed at the amount of repertoire I’ve acquired since joining them.

Rumour has it that my goddaughter is currently enthralled with celli. I must get the viola fixed so that she can hold it like a cello and mess about with it.

And the Not-Music-Related part of the post:

Note: a cool bath before bed brings the body temperature down, and the world doesn’t seem as humid and infernal as it actually is. I had a wonderful night’s sleep. Although swinging my legs over the edge of the bed in the morning only to discover that my feet no longer reach the floor is still slightly disconcerting. It will fade in time.

New Clothes

So now that the owlies have moved, the I’ve-been-meaning-to-update-the-website-design-scheme project which had been lagging suddenly became much more pressing. So voila: the new Owldaughter design ought to be omnipresent. If you find a page in the old style, or a broken link, let me know via the contact buttons.